KM Group Visited West Nias – North Sumatra
Following the Jakarta Food Security Summit that held few times ago, Community & Sustainability Division KM Group accepted the invitation from local governement of West nias to visit the area on May 7 – 9th, 2018. KM Group represented by COO Achmad Effendi, CEO Region of North Sumatra Andy Budi, Purchasing Manager PT. Nusira Andre, Community & Sustainability Div. Agung Nugroho and SDO Nusira Boy Siahaan were welcomed by Regent of West Nias Fadhusi Daely, accompanied by Chairman of DPRD Nithema Gulo, Head of Bapeda Yohannes Asarudy Halawa, and local religious leaders.
Faduhusi Daely said that was a dream come true KM Group could visited West Nias. As a rubber producing area, West Nias had many problem such as lack of guidance and there was no guarantee of rubber’s purchase. He convinced that KM Group was able to answer the problem that region faced, especially in rubber price through smallholder partnership program that company owned. The program give hope to farmer in West Nias and make them re-energize to do the right rubber cultivation so the quality of rubber that farmers produced meet the expectation and the price will be improved.
Faduhusi hopes with this partnership will improve farmers’ standard of living. The partnership will be started from the preparation of instruments and work instruction by Bappeda, socialization about the rubber development and the construction of warehouse that will realize soon.